Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 431 Liaison (3000)

Among Gao Cheng and the kings of Southern Liang, the first to know about Xiao Yan's death was Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan. He guarded Jiangzhou and was the closest.

The crown prince Xiao Gang is the emperor, and the decree that the vassal king is not allowed to enter the capital to hang his filial piety comes one after another. Xiao Yi intends to follow the river to the east to ask for the top priority, but across the river, Hou Jing, who sits in Yingzhou, looks at him covetously, so he dare not move. Long sigh.

After Hou Jing got the title of prince as he wished, he is now wholeheartedly working for the Gao family.

Liang Ren sent the secret letters he had contacted in the early years to Luoyang, intending to drive a wedge between Gao Cheng and Hou Jing. Only then did Hou Jing feel fearful because of a little thing back then, and said that he was in Hou Jing's position at that time, thinking that he would consider retreating when he thought he had a grudge against the prince.

This performance also completely made Hou Jing return to his heart, and he no longer had those messy little thoughts. Now he is practicing soldiers and horses under Anlu City all day long, and he is looking forward to the day when the army goes south to be the king's pioneer.

The envoys of the Jiankang court passed through Jiangzhou, and soon arrived in Xiangzhou, where Gao Cheng's half brother, Xiao Lun, king of Shaoling County, lived.

Xiao Lun was furious when he learned that his third elder brother Xiao Gang did not allow him to go to Beijing to mourn the funeral. He was really sad.

When he was young, whenever he was scolded by Xiao Yan, Xiao Lun would treat others as a filial son, cry for funerals, and even find an old man of the same age as Xiao Yan to cosplay, and make people wear emperor robes and be beaten by him.

Xiao Lun has a violent temper. If he hadn't had a bad relationship with his seventh brother Xiao Yi and eighth brother Xiao Ji, he really wanted to contact the two younger brothers to lead the army to Jiankang and ask the newly enthroned Xiao Gang why they were not allowed to be his father. funeral.

What!I gave you a promise, and you still want me to keep it?Too greedy.

The Qi envoy did not hide it, and told the truth about Xiao Fangzhi's situation. It turned out that Xiao Fangzhi, who was only eight years old this year, was not adopted by Gao Cheng as a foster son, but as a fake son in the actual sense, Little Gao Wang still took good care of him. Now he temporarily lives in the Jinling Pavilion, and is accompanied by Xiao Miaochun, the daughter of Xiao Gang's daughter Liyang Princess.

Gao Cheng personally acted as a matchmaker and made a marriage contract between him and the daughter of Gao Sizong, king of Shangluo County, his elder brother.

On February 29th, the third Qi envoy arrived in Jiankang, and the envoy went to the funeral. While repeating Gao Cheng's condolences to Xiao Gang, he also announced to the people in the south of the Yangtze River that the lord of Qi, Gao Cheng, honored Princess Liyang, and Qi Liang would be the country of in-laws , Now that Jiangnan is in mourning, Qi State will never take advantage of difficulties to raise troops. To show sincerity, Qi State will go to Jianghan and Huainan to fight.

The reason why it is only the daughter of the clan is that according to what the envoy Qi said, among Gao Cheng's daughters, the older ones are all married, and the rest are too young. Although this time it is the daughter of the clan, Gao Cheng will Take her as a righteous daughter and marry her as a princess.

It's just that it's one thing to make a promise, but it's another thing to make a promise afterwards.

Four years ago, Xiao Lun offered a hundred altars of poisoned wine, intending to poison his father and brother together. Xiao Yan was aware of it, and asked the palace servants to drink first. The palace servants drank the poisoned wine and died of poisoning. Xiao Yan was so frightened that he increased the number of palace guards overnight. In this way, Xiao Lun was not punished.

On the day Gao Cheng received the news, he immediately summoned the regular servants of scattered riders to discuss. After the discussion, he immediately sent three envoys southward, all the way to Jiankang to mourn Xiao Yan.

The troops from Shou, Yang, and He states in the Huainan area on the eastern front were also led by She Digan, the governor of Hezhou, and retreated to Henan.

Xiao Lun wrote on the spot and apologized to Xiao Yi for his satirical poems, and encouraged Xiao Yi to rise up with him. When the time comes, they will enter Jiankang City and seize the bird position. Isn't it beautiful, little emperor.

The envoys of the three routes will tell each other that the Qi army will never take advantage of Xiaoliang's national funeral and send troops south. Commanded by Guang, moved to Xiangyang, and at the same time transferred all the Jingzhou navy and Yangzhou navy to Hanshui, preparing to advance both by water and land, and go upstream through Shangyong and Xincheng counties to exchange views with Yuwentai's defenders in Hanzhong .

As we all know, what Xiao Yi hates the most in his life is that others talk about his one-eyed eyes, but Xiao Lun also writes poems to sarcasm, how can these two brothers get along.

So he wrote another letter, promising that after the completion of the promise, he might give Fujian to Xiao Ji, and together with Lingnan, his descendants Yongzhen.

Of course, the original words can't be like this, it is said that one person is the emperor and the other is the prime minister.

Gao Cheng was not afraid of the emptiness of the two places, Liang people would take the opportunity to go north, even if there were only state and county soldiers in Huainan, how could Xiao Gang dare to ignore Xiao Yi and Xiao Lun, and send troops to the north to fail.

But Jiangzhou under the rule of the seventh brother Xiao Yi blocked the way, and wanted to attack Jiankang, so he either eliminated Xiao Yi, or united with him to fight Jiankang.

Compared with Xiao Lun's eldest son, Xiao Jian, who behaves absurdly, Gao Cheng admires his second son Xiao Que, who is both civil and military, ambitious and good at calligraphy.

What is imminent now is the mobilization of military power in the south.

For Xiao Gang who was registered as the crown prince after Xiao Tong, Xiao Lun couldn't look at him anyway, and even led troops to ambush on the road, preparing to intercept and kill Xiao Gang, but the matter was revealed but nothing happened.

In fact, Xiao Lun certainly knew what Gao Cheng was planning, but he felt that the Yangtze River was a natural danger. When he entered Jiankang, with this great river, Qi people could only look at the river and sigh.

Let's fight, make it into a pot of porridge, brothers will fight against each other, and then it will be him, Gao Cheng, who is invited by the loser, to punish the people and punish crimes, and cross the south of the Yangtze River.

Gao Cheng was thankful that Xiao Yuanming killed that guy for him, otherwise he would have escaped to the north, and Little Gao Wang would have to hold his nose and condescend, disgusting himself.

In the land of Jianghan and Huainan, only the state and county soldiers were garrisoned.

Eldest brother Xiao Tong became the prince, Xiao Lun was convinced by 1 people, but unfortunately Xiao Tong fell into the water and died of illness.

The relationship between Xiao Lun and Xiao Ji couldn't be better.

The words reached Xiao Yan's ears, and he was scolded again:
"The King of Wuling deserves the credit for caring for the people and opening up the territory. What skills do you Xiao Lun have to fight for the credit?" '

Sitting in the palace, Xiao Lun thought about it, and found that he had a deeper hatred with his third brother Xiao Gang who had just become emperor.

When he was in Jiangling, Xiao Fangzhi's mother, the Xia family, was loved by Gao Cheng. On the return trip, Gao Cheng asked Xiao Yi to redeem Xiao Fangju, Xiao Fanglue, and Xiao Fanggui, and took Xiao Fangzhi alone to Luoyang.

On February 25th, the second Qi envoy arrived in Jiangzhou. Xiao Yi didn't care about Gao Cheng's condolences. Instead, he cared about his son Xiao Fangzhi who had been taken captive to Luoyang.

For Gao Cheng's idea of ​​seizing Hanzhong, Xiao Lun agreed with 1 people, and he also believed that Northern Qi should have sovereignty over Hanzhong.

Regardless of whether Gao Cheng himself married Xiao Gang's daughter, and adopted his adoptive daughter to marry Xiao Lun's son, whether the relationship was chaotic or not, at least Xiao Lun was very satisfied, especially when Bei Qi successively withdrew the frontline soldiers. I saw sincerity.

The conflict with Xiao Ji, the eighth brother, was purely out of jealousy. Before Yu Wentai went south, Xiao Ji was in charge of Shu, easing the conflicts between the Han bureaucrats and restoring the economy in Shu. For the absurd deeds of Dai Xiao, carrying the coffin and crying for funerals, when Xiao Yan scolded Xiao Lun, he always used his younger brother Xiao Ji as an excuse.

The reason why Gao Cheng made this promise was because he expected that the Nanliang masters would compete for the throne, and the winner would not be determined in a short time. Even if Xiao Lun and Xiao Yi entered Jiankang, they would fight each other, and Xiao Ji from Lingnan Not to mention watching.

Xiao Lun did not forget his eighth younger brother Xiao Ji, even though he was far away in the south of the Lingnan, isolated from Jiankang mountains and rivers, and he couldn't even catch up with the hot ones, but he was also afraid that this little brother would stab him in the back.

After Xiao Yi heard about Xiao Fangzhi's situation, he treated the envoy of Qi even closer. Before that, he had received a secret letter from his sixth elder brother Xiao Lun, and he had already been tempted. It was only because of the threats from the Northern Qi that he did not take any action.

In the fourth year of Zhaode (551), on February 23, the first Qi envoy arrived in Xiangzhou and was warmly welcomed by Xiao Lun. On the other hand, he married the daughter of the Northern Qi clan to Xiao Lun's second son, Xiao Que.

But everyone is dead, no matter how much you yell at him, it won't help. He and Xiao Zhengde are just using their relationship, and he doesn't regret this person's death at all, and he even wants to stab Xiao Zhengde himself.

Xiao Yi and Xiao Lun didn't dare to ignore Xiao Gang, and attacked Jianghan Plain. Every penny in their hands was used to fight for the throne.

The other two routes went to Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou respectively, and contacted Xiao Yi and Xiao Lun.

For what happened to Princess Changle, Gao Cheng was full of sympathy, and planned to wait for their mother and daughter to arrive in Luoyang, ask them what they wanted, and then make arrangements.

At the same time, Gao Cheng, who was in Luoyang, finally got the news. He was annoyed at Xiao Zhengde's incompetence.

Even if you hold on for two more days and guard Zhuquehang, Duan Shao and others can cross the south of the Yangtze River to support and enter Jiankang in one fell swoop.

Xiao Yan's connivance again and again has cultivated Xiao Lun's lawless temperament. Now he feels that Xiao Gang can't let himself hold Hunan, Yi, Ning and other Jingnan states. Sooner or later he will seize his power, and he must be the first to attack .

Xiao Lun was aggrieved by this, and often complained:
"Wu Ling Wang (Xiao Ji) what credit does he have that his official position is higher than mine?The imperial court is in a daze, how can it know how to employ people! '

The festival between Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi originated from a poem written by Xiao Lun when he was young, called "The Poem of Playing the King of East Hunan":
"There is a disease in eastern Hunan, which is either dumb or deaf.Lovesickness sheds only tears, and hope is full of success. '

That's right, with Xiao Yi and Xiao Ji can only be said to be conflicts and festivals, but with Xiao Gangna it is indeed an enmity.

Now that Gao Cheng sent envoys to the south, Xiao Yi, like Xiao Lun, also took the opportunity to conclude an alliance with Bei Qi in private, agreeing not to attack each other, and wishing Gao Cheng a satisfactory result in the Battle of Hanzhong.

Bodhisattva Xiao, no one really thinks that Xiao Yan is willing to kill his son.

If you don't let the Xiao family brothers rest assured, how can they fight for the throne.

Gao Cheng dispatched three envoys, but Xiao Ji was the only one left out, not just because he was in Lingnan, not bordering Northern Qi, but because he felt that the snipe and clam fight for the fisherman's benefit, and perhaps Xiao Ji, who sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight, is the best. It is possible to have the last laugh, besides, there is Chen Baxian under Xiao Ji's command.

Today, the reason why the battle for the throne in Nanliang has not started is because Gao Cheng is waiting for Gao Cheng to send troops to Hanzhong to reconnect with Yu Wentai. After 50 years, it fell into a large-scale war again.

　Today is only [-], and my neck is very sore, I need to rest first.

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